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Subject: Re: [regrep] IPR Policy Review
Rex, I did indeed raise this issue in an earlier posting - that suddenly under the new IPR proposals - individuals are empowered to demand licensing for submissions they have made to TC work (and that's just for a kick-off). Frankly given a choice between adopting one of the 3 new IPR choices and not adopting any of them (eg status quo), I'm seeing the status quo wins hands down. If a TC votes not to adopt any of the three, or simply fails to achieve quorum on a vote to adopt, I believe the matter ends there. Thanks, DW Rex Brooks wrote: > Members of the Board: > > While I understand the needfulness of this step, and I have numerous > questions as to the specific wording in places which leaves some > ambiguity, I suspect that this is inevitable, as will be the > subsequent fallout. > > This will indirectly grant approval for the similar, but far less > constrained policy that was floated in the W3C last year and resulted > in an uproar that ended with the RAND policy being withdrawn. > > Just for the record, I do disagree with this policy because it opens > the door a crack, however slightly we may think we are allowing, to > the whole panoply of nefarious practices we have seen over the last > several hundred years in the course of the industrial revolution and > development of the current economic system with all its benefits and > all its warts and inhumanity. > > However, that is the world we live in, and it is often the case that > one must accept things one dislikes and hope that the longer term > consequences prove either less stifling than anticipated in this case, > or else that the full consequences become apparent and cause the kinds > of problems I expect sooner rather than later. As in my former > incarnation within the field of advertising, the only thing that good > advertising does for a bad product is to get it killed quicker. In > this case, the only thing a well-intentioned attempt at compromise can > do is educate us sooner. I'd like to be pleasantly surprised, but I > expect that this is going to backfire furiously and the blowback on > the large corporations and their ipr lawyers will be difficult to > accept for them, but easier than losing legions of developers and the > markets they service. > > We'll see what happens. > > Regards, > Rex Brooks
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